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PhD Fellow

My PhD project is grafted to ASCA’s The 9/11 Effect research group, which explores art and cultural politics in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. My dissertation considers the relationship between 9/11 and the politics of (cultural) resistance, in particular how the terrorist attacks have influenced practices and theories of resistance as expressed through cultural objects. This conceptualization of resistance foregrounds artistic and creative expressions that address 9/11-invigorated themes such as patriotism, national identity, Islamophobia, and enemification. Furthermore, post-9/11 cultural resistance, I argue, is also articulated as a refusal of dominant and imposed identities and their visual representations in popular culture.

Education

MA in English Literature (cum laude), University of Amsterdam, 2008

BA in International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, 1991

Work Experience

Correspondent, The Associated Press, Amsterdam Bureau, 1993-1999

Journalist, Het Financieele Dagblad, Amsterdam, 1999-2004

Research Interests

• Politics of resistance
• Cultural/literary theory
• Exile and post-colonial literature
• Ranciere, Foucault